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Monuments, given from cities and countries all around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to world peace, line the walkways that lead to The Fountain of Peace.

“Joy of Life” (right) donated in 1980 by the Czechoslovak Republic in 1980

More about beautiful, peaceful NagasakiThe fountain’s spraying water forms dove’s wings as a symbol of peace. Water has an emotional attachment to this memorial because so many died due to the lack of any drinkable water.

This was most poignantly brought to our attention by the inscription on the fountain. Sachiko Yamaguchi, a girl only nine years old at time of the bombing, wrote:

“I was thirsty beyond endurance. There was something oily on the surface of the water, but I wanted water so badly that I drank it just as it was.”

We were touched by a survivor who invited us to water his plant as an offering to world peace.

Deeply honored, tears poured down Veronica’s cheeks as she took up the ladle and read the translation of his amazing story.

“I would have died unless my boss had told me to do that irregular job of fixing parts in the other building. We were transferring to the new workplace.

11 thoughts on “A Powerful Prayer at The Peace Garden of Nagasaki, Japan”

We never want to see again the events that drove the Allied political decisions for such terrible firebombing and atomic bombing of Japan’s cities and her citizens – thus we also do not want to see the atrocities like what happened to the citizens in Nanjing, Hong Kong, Kuching, Sandakan, Malaya, Singapore, Banka Island, Changi, Outram Road, Bataan, villages in Papua New Guinea, what is now Indonesia but was the Dutch East Indies, and in so many other places under the Japanese WW2 East Asian Co Prosperity Zone to ever ever happen again – because it drives the use of such terrible weapons.